On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Giuseppe Antonaci wrote: > Ok, moved to R-devel. > > I tried to build R-2.3.1. Since I intent to distribute this tuned R to > all other who have a computer like mine here at work I thought it was > best to stay with the latest stable release.
Which is 2.4.0 RC. > About your suggestion, I could'n find xerblas.o file. And I don't know > how to edit libf77blas.a. I tried to open it with VIM > (http://vim.sf.net/) but there was a lot of strange symbols (expected, > I think), either way I found a reference to xerblas.o inside it but > didn't know what to do with this reference. Well, I said xerbla.o, not xerblas.o. You edit library archives with ar, something like ar d libf77blas.a xerbla.o > Thanks, > Giuseppe Antonaci > > On 26/09/06, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Giuseppe Antonaci wrote: >> >> > I think this is not a R-devel question. Sorry to all if I'm wrong, >> > please let me know. >> >> In what sense is this not a programming question? >> >> > I managed to build R successfully with the default BLAS but when I >> > change the MKRULES to use ATLAS BLAS and set the path to >> > "C:/cygwin/home/Administrador/ATLAS/lib/WinNT_ATHLONSSE2" I got the >> > following error message (I'm posting only the final part, there was a >> > lot of compilation before this): >> > >> > cp R.dll ../../bin/ >> > -------- Building ../../bin/Rblas.dll -------- >> > gcc -shared -s -o ../../bin/Rblas.dll blas00.o dllversion.o Rblas.def \ >> > -L../../bin -lR -L"C:/WinNT_ATHLONSSE2" -lf77blas -latlas >> >> What version of R is this? I get >> >> -------- Building ../../../bin/Rblas.dll -------- >> gcc -shared -o ../../../bin/Rblas.dll blas00.o >> ../../gnuwin32/dllversion.o Rbl >> as.def \ >> -L../../../bin -lR -L"/R/ATLAS/lib/WinNT_PM" -lf77blas -latlas -lg2c >> ^^^^^ >> in R-2.4.0 RC. >> >> You probably should not need it: you need to build ATLAS without xerbla (R >> has its own), so delete xerbla.o from libf77blas.a and all should be well. >> >> -- >> Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ >> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) >> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 >> > > I managed to build R-2.3.1 successfully with the default BLAS but when I > change the MKRULES to use ATLAS BLAS and set the path to > "C:/WinNT_ATHLONSSE2" I got the > following error message (I'm posting only the final part, there was a > lot of compilation before this): > > cp R.dll ../../bin/ > -------- Building ../../bin/Rblas.dll -------- > gcc -shared -s -o ../../bin/Rblas.dll blas00.o dllversion.o Rblas.def \ > -L../../bin -lR -L"C:/WinNT_ATHLONSSE2" -lf77blas -latlas > C:/WinNT_ATHLONSSE2/libf77blas.a(xerbla.o):xerbla.f:(.text+0xb): undefined > refer > ence to `s_wsfe' > C:/WinNT_ATHLONSSE2/libf77blas.a(xerbla.o):xerbla.f:(.text+0x27): undefined > refe > rence to `do_fio' > C:/WinNT_ATHLONSSE2/libf77blas.a(xerbla.o):xerbla.f:(.text+0x43): undefined > refe > rence to `do_fio' > C:/WinNT_ATHLONSSE2/libf77blas.a(xerbla.o):xerbla.f:(.text+0x48): undefined > refe > rence to `e_wsfe' > C:/WinNT_ATHLONSSE2/libf77blas.a(xerbla.o):xerbla.f:(.text+0x5c): undefined > refe > rence to `s_stop' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[2]: *** [../../bin/Rblas.dll] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [rbuild] Error 2 > make: *** [all] Error 2 > > The ATLAS BLAS was build using Cygwin. AFTER building ATLAS BLAS I > changed the "Path" variable putting "C:\Rtools\tools\bin;C:\MinGW\bin" > before everything else. > To build R I followed "R Administration and Instalation" and Duncan > Murdoch's guide at http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/, > including the version of MinGW. > > At ATLAS web page (http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/errata.html) I > found the following: > > Q: I'm linking with C, and getting missing symbols (such as w_wsfe, > do_fio, w_esfe or s_stop). > R: These kinds of symbols are Fortran library calls. The problem is > that the C linker does not automatically find the Fortran libraries. > The most common fix is to either link using your fortran linker, or to > rewrite your code so that Fortran routines are not called. If you know > where they are, you can also choose to link in the Fortran libraries > explicitly > > Well, I think this answers my question but I didn't understand the > answer (and it was not because it is in English). Unfortunately I know > nothing of C or Fortran. Even if I > knew that I have these Fortran libraries I wouldn't know how to link > them. I tried to look at MinGW web page but found nothing. > Any help would be mostly welcome, please. > Giuseppe Antonaci > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
